Recommendations
• Consider an annual thematic focus for the entire institution to help unify professional development efforts. • Faculty Development Center plan includes professional development for faculty on how to incorporate intercultural awareness into their teaching practices and curricula. • Explore Intergroup Dialogue (IGD) as a galvanizing strategy for better communication and understanding of similarities and difference across campus. • Design and implement ongoing education initiatives to improve intercultural competency of all faculty, staff, and students. • Hire an HR recruitment specialist. • Offer incentives for current faculty and staff to learn Spanish since the language is the window to the culture. • Establish a brick and mortar space, with a full-time director, for faculty and staff development. • Create faculty and staff development initiatives that involve re-envisioning curriculum and co-curricular programming through the development of culturally responsive teaching practices, which recognize the differences in values, beliefs, and importance of racial and cultural diversity in learning. This initiative must include training that assists faculty and staff in addressing the challenges students encounter in achieving educational and career goals (cultural differences, family/school disconnect, finances, first-generation college student, language barriers, social pressure to drop out, time conflicts, work demands, etc.). • Design a comprehensive faculty/staff professional development program focusing on increasing: • online student success; • quality interactions between students and faculty and collaboration among faculty; • pathways to success; • levels of academic engagement and transfer expectations; • assistance to students who are underprepared for college. • Use student success data and the adoption of new learning systems and methods to improve student learning and student services outcomes. • Encourage faculty to participate in offerings to keep up-to-date on trends and best practices in intercultural education, including technological advancements to improve retention. • Host workshops, presentations, and speakers to promote the development of programs and the infusion of strategies into the classroom, especially in relation to awareness and diverse teaching and learning processes. • Provide faculty support for curriculum redesign for maximum impact utilizing best practices in working with underserved populations to create a culture of flexible student belonging . • Continue mandatory online training through CLA that educates faculty and staff about cultural awareness (Treating People with Dignity and Respect). • Design and implement a “grow your own” program to increase the diversity of faculty, administrators and staff. • Develop and implement mentoring programs for all diverse faculty and staff to increase retention.
CWU HSI Initiative 7.12.18
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